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Dynamical Triangulations for 2D Pure Gravity and Topological Recursion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that, in two-dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity without matter fields, the Schwinger-Dyson equations derived within the Hamiltonian framework of non-critical string field theory can be reformulated in terms of the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, and we explicitly compute the associated low-order amplitudes. In particular, we establish this reformulation for two discrete models -- the basic type and the strip type -- as well as for the continuum limit of dynamical triangulations.

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@article{arxiv.2509.18916,
  title  = {Dynamical Triangulations for 2D Pure Gravity and Topological Recursion},
  author = {Hiroyuki Fuji and Masahide Manabe and Yoshiyuki Watabiki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18916},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

59 pages, 15 figures; v2: an updated version which was accepted to JHEP

R2 v1 2026-07-01T05:51:55.390Z